Free Dirty Diamonds Of Boko Haram Part 1 by Eze Eke Page A

the room and out to the front of the house where the Mercedes
and a Lexus car waited to take them back to their separate
hotels.
    Both cars left the mansion together but split
up on the highway as they headed in different directions.
     
     
     
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CHAPTER FIVE
    After the two soldiers had gone, Rufai and
Basil sat quietly watching and waiting for their boss to speak.
    The Alhaji took his time with the drinking of
his water and the thoughts his mind before he looked at his most
trusted lieutenants.
    “What do you think” he asked finally.
    “I think we’re good” said Rufai. “These men
definitely have what it takes to see this mission through. They all
have the skill, experience and fearlessness to handle any trouble
we encounter along the way. The Igbo guy, though, he’s exceptional.
His physic, the way he moves, his level of alertness and still the
calmness and complete control, he’s definitely very highly trained
and extremely dangerous”
    “Yes, it’s exactly like his file says” agreed
Basil. “He’ll be a wonderful asset out there but I don’t trust him
to deliver on the last part of the plan. He strikes me as a man
with a conscience”
    “Exactly what I’ve been thinking too” said
Rufai and looked at his boss. “We may need to take him out at that
point”
    “His usefulness should be over by then” said
the Alhaji. “If he tries to become a problem kill him, but do it
very quickly and without mistakes otherwise he will kill all of you
and he will do it without the problem of a conscience. He was, and
technically still is, one of the very best fighting men the Army
has to offer”
    “Samuel and his men are exceptionally good
too” said Rufai. “We will be four against only him when the time
comes, he can’t beat us all”
    “Don’t be too sure of that” the Alhaji shook
his head, sitting forward. “I don’t even think you fully understand
what you are dealing with here, Rufai. Listen, Samuel and his men
may be well trained soldiers but Mr. Okoye is much better or rather
much worse. He was a highly trained commando who was
specially hand-picked, because of his unique talents , to
undergo more special trainings to become Special
Forces. Not the normal kind, mind you, he was one of the few
trained fully by the Americans themselves, at high costs too, and
he emerged as one of the very best in that class. I was told that
was the real reason he never went to prison for the offence he
committed, some very powerful people in the military see him as an
invaluable asset that can be used again. Those blank pages you saw
in his file are actually the reports of a classified mission that
went so terribly wrong that all traces of it had to be completely
suppressed but for a time it made him something of a celebrity in
top political circles, that’s how I came to know of him in the
first place. At the early stage of his career in the Special
Forces, his unit was detailed to provide special protection for
some VIPs quietly doing some on-the-spot assessments in that
north-east region. Two senators were among those VIPs and that
information somehow leaked out to the terrorists. Their convoy got
ambushed by a large group of heavily armed Boko Haram militants who
killed a lot of the escorting soldiers, captured one of the
senators alive and retreated quickly across the international
borders into the remote Cameroon mountains where they knew the
Nigerian military would never follow. He went after them and he
went alone. Multiple eyewitness report has it that he just took off
running after the Pickup Jeeps the insurgent drove away in. He was
gone for four days but when he finally came back out of these
mountains, he was carrying the unconscious body of that senator
over his shoulders and he had thirteen Boko Haram masks with him. Thirteen plus kills ! And deep in unknown enemy territory! If
not for the fact that he crossed the international borders the way
he did, he would have gotten a big